A basket of links for this moment in religious tolerance
September 12, 2010
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Some of this year’s 9/11 memorial services seemed to strive to take anti-Islamic rhetoric head-on.
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Benedict XVI and Rowan Williams as ‘poachers turned gamekeepers’
September 12, 2010
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In advance of an impending papal visit to the UK, international Catholic pub The Tablet offers a helpful compare-and-contrast essay that thinks through Rowan Williams and Pope Benedict XVI. Meanwhile, let’s remember 1982, if we can: conflict in The Falklands, World Cup action, and … oh yeah, Pope John Paul II is greeted in England like a rock star.
John Paul II shook the hand of an Anglican clergywoman
September 8, 2010
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..he shook my hand then clasped it and blessed my community and my ministry. I understood from then Archbishop Levada. . .that I was the first to be met in what they call private audience.
BREAKING – DioPA Standing Committee asks for Presiding Bishop’s help
September 8, 2010
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“It is our profound concern that the healing and progress of the Diocese are now at risk and so we request that this letter and our request for your concern and support in chartering a way forward in this diocese and to secure Bishop Bennison’s retirement or resignation.”
Anglican clergywoman to shake hands with Pope
September 8, 2010
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It will be the first time the head of the Vatican, which earlier this year declared female ordination a “crime against the faith”, shakes hands with a clergywoman.
NZ students use Facebook to aid victims of earthquake
September 8, 2010
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Johnson set up the group “student volunteer base for earthquake clean up”, calling on his peers to get out and help clear the debris littering Christchurch after New Zealand’s most destructive quake in almost 80 years.
The cost of happiness
September 8, 2010
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Does happiness rise with income? In one of the more scientific attempts to answer that question, researchers from Princeton have put a price on happiness. It’s about $75,000 in income a year.
Pope not ‘fishing’ on UK visitation
September 5, 2010
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Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols says that despite recent overtures to Anglicans through the instrument of an ordinariate, Pope Benedict XVI’s upcoming trip to the UK isn’t for tossing out lures.
Irish Catholic reform priests: small group, big dreams
September 5, 2010
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“Some years ago I was walking to the Mater Private Hospital to visit a good friend, Archbishop Joe Cassidy. On the way, I passed a group of teenagers who shouted, ‘Abused any children lately, Father?'”
God may want a minute alone with Stephen Hawking
September 5, 2010
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Such words about the necessity of God bring to mind Napoleon’s conversation with Pierre-Simon LaPlace, who, when asked by Bonaparte why he hadn’t mentioned God in an entire book about the system of the universe, famously replied, “Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis.”
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